Research Handbook on Human Rights and the Environment

Edited by Anna Grear, Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand and Louis J. Kotzé, Research Professor, North-West University, South Africa and Senior Professorial Fellow in Earth System Law, University of Lincoln, UK

‘Professors Grear and Kotzé have masterfully fashioned a landmark work on human rights and the natural environment. This Research Handbook is more than just a library of current ideas about this important topic; it is an intellectual tour de force that stimulates new thinking on the place of social justice and moral responsibility in the Anthropocene.’

• Contents:1. An Invitation to Epistemic Travellers – Towards Future Worlds in Waiting: Human Rights and the Environment in the Twenty-first CenturyAnna Grear and Louis J. KotzéPART I EPISTEMOLOGIES 2. Epistemologies of MasterySam Adelman3. Epistemologies of DoubtAndreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos4. Ecological Subjectivities, Responsibilities, and AgencyLorraine CodePRAT II CORE VALUES AND CLOSURES 5. Environmental Human Rights: A Constructive CritiquePeter D. Burdon6. The Closures of Legal Subjectivity: Why Examining ‘Law’s Person’ is Critical to an Understanding of Injustice in an Age of Climate CrisisAnna Grear7. Property Rights, Environmental Justice and Worldly Order – Lessons from Natural LawSean Coyle 8. Re-imagining the Role of the Sovereign State and Individual Rights in Mitigating the Effects of the Deterioration of the EnvironmentFrancois VenterPART III CONSTITUTIONALISMS AND INTERNATIONALISMS9. Human Rights and the Environment through an Environmental Constitutionalism LensLouis J. Kotzé10. Constitutions, Human Rights and the Environment: National ApproachesDavid R. Boyd11. Sustainability, Environmental Citizenship Rights and the Ongoing Challenges of Reshaping Supranational Environmental GovernanceKaren Morrow12. The United Nations, Human Rights and the EnvironmentLynda CollinsPART IV REGIONALISMSRegionalisms 1: Troubled Conversations?13. In One Ear and Out the Other: Human Rights Consultations and Environmental Discourses for Human Rights in AustralasiaBrad Jessup and Annette Jones14. Reflecting on Cosmology and Environmental Protection: Maori Cultural Rights in Aotearoa New ZealandCatherine J. Iorns Magallanes15. Environmental Justice and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights Sophie ThériaultRegionalisms 2: Participations?16. Aligning International Environmental Governance with the ‘Aarhus Principles’ and Participatory Human RightsUlrich Beyerlin17. The Interaction Between Human Rights and the Environment in the European ‘Aarhus Space’Ellen HeyRegionalisms 3: Receptivities?18. International Courts and Environmental Human Rights: Re-Imagining Adjudicative ParadigmsEvadne Grant19. Human Rights and the Environment in the African Union ContextWerner ScholtzPART V THE FUTURE WE WANT?20. Protecting the Human Rights of Climate Displaced Persons: The Promise and Limits of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate ChangeRosemary Lyster21. Human Rights, Environmental Justice, and the North-South DivideCarmen G. Gonzalez22. Selectivity in Law-Making: Regulating Extraterritorial Environmental Harm and Human Rights Violations by Transnational Extractive Corporations Penelope Simons23. Ecosystem Services, Fear and the Subjects of Environmental Human RightsAfshin Akhtar Khavari24. Environmental and Human Rights in Ethical ContextKlaus BosselmannIndex